Artificial Intelligence
13 stories, 89 sources cited
The EU AI Act rules that started on 2 August are the labelling ones, not the high risk ones
Article 50 transparency duties began applying on 2 August 2026, with fines up to 15 million euros or 3 per cent of worldwide turnover. The high risk o
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Brussels switched on AI labelling in August and pushed the high risk rules out to December 2027
The EU AI Act became applicable on 2 August 2026, but the European Commission now dates obligations on hiring, credit and biometric systems to 2 Decem
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The 1.5 billion dollar Anthropic settlement is final, but the per book figure everyone quotes is wrong
The order granting final approval in Bartz v Anthropic is dated 20 July 2026 and Reuters reported it on 21 July. The often repeated maths of 3,109 dol
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A judge made OpenAI hand over 20 million ChatGPT conversations, then ordered 88 million more
Judge Sidney Stein affirmed an order compelling OpenAI to produce a full 20 million log sample to the copyright plaintiffs on 5 January 2026. What Ope
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Getty won permission to appeal the UK ruling that Stable Diffusion is not an infringing copy
Mrs Justice Joanna Smith granted Getty Images permission to appeal on all grounds of its secondary copyright infringement claim, and refused Stability
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Florida's ten count complaint against OpenAI names Sam Altman personally on nine counts
Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an 83 page civil complaint in Highlands County on 1 June 2026 against OpenAI and its chief executive. It pleads
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Washington licensed about 10 billion dollars of H200 chips for China, and almost none shipped
The Bureau of Industry and Security opened case by case review of Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X exports on 13 January 2026. On 14 July 2026 Under Secreta
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An EPRI paper found data centres cut US retail power prices from 2015 to 2024, against forecasts of rises
A working paper by Asa Watten, John Bistline and Geoffrey Blanford, posted 18 June 2026, uses an instrumental variables design and finds each doubling
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Anthropic's pledge to pay for the grid its data centres need names no sum, no site and no auditor
Anthropic's 11 February 2026 commitment covers grid upgrades, net new generation and demand driven price effects, against a stated sector need of at l
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Stanford puts the US lead over Chinese models at 2.7 per cent but does not say which benchmarks that is
The 2026 AI Index reports that the top US model led Chinese rivals by 2.7 per cent as of March 2026, a single date in a series the report says has cha
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Stanford's AI Index reports 362 AI incidents in 2025 as model transparency fell from 58 to 40
The 2026 AI Index records 362 documented AI incidents in 2025 against 233 in 2024, and an average Foundation Model Transparency Index score of 40 afte
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IEA puts data centres at 485 TWh in 2025 and 950 TWh by 2030, while reviewers span a 40 fold range
The International Energy Agency's 16 April 2026 update has data centres using 485 TWh in 2025, rising to about 950 TWh by 2030, with demand up 17 per
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A US court has ruled Workday's AI bias testing privileged because its lawyers curated the data
In a discovery order filed on 29 May 2026 in Mobley v Workday, the Northern District of California refused to compel Workday's bias-testing data, hold
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